Without real military muscle to back them up, safe havens have sometimes proven anything but safe for those who were supposed to be protected, as the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica discovered.

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It means she will be giving up a relatively safe route back to Cardiff Bay in an attempt to help her party break new ground.

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While gold has not recently seen fresh safe-haven investment demand due to the EU debt crisis, my bias is that a serious escalation in the crisis, such as the EU starting to break up, would see good safe-haven demand come back into the gold market.

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The action of sending the boy back home to south Wales was taken as part of the Newquay Safe Partnership scheme, which was set up following the deaths of two teenagers in the town in 2009.

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So to all those getting worked up about them, just sit back and let nature take its course, safe in the knowledge that the only thing more certain than Hear'Say breaking up, is the fact that there will be five more new manufactured bands waiting to take their place in the sun for a few months.

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